TripAdvisor Reviews Hotel Royal Picardie Albert

Travel Blogs from Albert

... up on a side road and started leafing (ploughing;-)) though the free camping places book coz the paying places had nothing, to find somewhere to camp tonight and here we are in Conty. We are now settled in for the night in our electricity free, WC free, shower free free camping spot in Conty ready for our next leg which will see us take to the historical D-Day landing sights of WWII. PS, yes Fifi comes with her own toilet and hot ...

We also toured the gardens, in their winter guise. It was cold, but we enjoyed the walk.

From Compiegne, we drove to Amiens, picking up traffic just outside of town. Most parking lots were full, but I did get a space in a lot a few blocks from the hotel. I think it might have been the last spot in the lot (maybe even in the city). We walked to ...

Another early morning with a better breakfast which was fine. . We drove about 5 minutes to La Grande Mine, a famous, really really massive crater that was created by the British by undermining the ground and laying it with explosives. It was really big. There was a grave a meter off the path that was located where a body was found, found in 1998. That means the body sat just a meter of the path for 60 years... The crater wasn't even taken by the British ...

The past few days have been intriguing and beautiful. We have one night left staying in l'Albert. We have spent the last few days with the smash sight seeing, shopping and exploring the towns and war memorial sites all around la Somme country side. We have visited old German trenches and bunkers, some old new ...